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Old Tue Aug 30, 2011, 08:30 PM
Chirley Chirley is offline
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Hi,

I couldn't help having my say here. My brother had sulpha drugs as a child. Within a few weeks he was admitted to hospital with GI bleeding and vomiting blood. Blood tests showed very low counts (many years ago and don't remember numbers). He had many transfusions and high dose prednisone and his counts rebounded.

50 years later he still has thrombocytopenia (occasionally requiring platelet transfusions) which has been changed from ITP to Lupus but it definitely started after his sulpha drugs all those years ago.

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